On 05/02/06 00:39 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > Heh, so if I start a website of my own, with pretty pictures and > > colours, will you give me your IM passwords as well? > > I think Philip is raving mad! What prompted you to think that only > meebo and not Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft will be having our IM > passwords and sneaking into our privacy? > To be able to authenticate to Yahoo!, you need to know a username and password from that service. You are not supposed to share that with anyone else. Meebo is effectively able to MITM your IM conversations.
> By the way I will greatly appreciate it if Philip is able to come up > with a solution to IMing from behind a proxy. > There is always Jabber. Plus, if you _do_ need IM from work, you should be able to get a hole poked in the proxy. Alternatively, you could always telecommute, or even get another job. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
